On Tuesday, Amazon.com’s $199 Kindle Fire tablet goes from being a promise to reality. Folks who pre-ordered early should get theirs tomorrow, and at that point we’ll know if Jeff Bezos’ dive into the full-fledged tablet market is worth the hype it has received. [Update: Amazon says it’s shipping the Fire a day early. Some […] …

Updated 4:03 p.m. • Exclusive: Lenovo to release a 10.1-inch Ice Cream Sandwich tablet with Tegra 3 by year’s end – It may even be available in time for the holidays. And HTC to unveil quad-core tablet PC at MWC, says paper • GOLDMAN: Demand For The iPad Is Fading – A price cut may […] …

• Kindle Fire could be hotter than iPad this holiday season, study finds – Retrevo finds higher interest in the Fire than the iPad. But also note that the same percentage of respondents who said they’d consider a Fire also said they didn’t know enough about the tablet to make a decision. • People Now […] …

• Nasty Bug in iOS 5.0.1 OTA Update screws up Address Book on the iPhone 4S – If you’re on Verizon with an iPhone 4S, and have updated to 5.01 using the over-the-air method, you may find your phone doesn’t connect names to phone numbers when receiving calls or texts. Also, there are still some […] …

Conventional geek wisdom says that, when it comes to music, digital downloads are where it’s at and CDs are a forgotten relic of the past. But according to some new numbers from Gartner, the geeks are very, very wrong – and will remain so for some time to come. This year, Gartner says, digital music […] …

Here’s your Friday open-comment thread on TechBlog. You know how it goes: Leave a comment about anything related to personal technology, and I’ll approve it. Then, come back later to see what others said about what you had to say. Repeat as needed, or at least until the swelling subsides. Also, some scheduling notes: The […] …

• Facebook Nears Settlement on Charges It Misled Users on Privacy – As part of a settlement with the FTC, Facebook will make all privacy settings opt-in, according to the Wall Street Journal. This is how it should have been all along. • Steam Hacked, Valve Urges Credit Card Vigilance – Valve says passwords and […] …

If you’ve got an iPhone 4 or 4S running iOS 5, you may have found your battery’s staying power taking a nose dive. A bug in that recently released mobile operating system has got iPhone owners running for their chargers more often. But today Apple released iOS 5.01, which hopefully will fix the problem. You […] …

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